Decapitation and Disgorgement. The Female Body's Text in Early Modern English Drama and Poetry.

ISBN-13: 9783898216050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 180 str.

Melanie A Hanson;Koray Melikoglu

Opis

This book brings the ideas of French feminist Hélène Cixous to bear on a number of Early Modern English texts. The female characters of Mariam from Elizabeth Carys 'The Tragedy of Mariam', Lavinia from William Shakespeares 'Titus Andronicus' as well as John Miltons Eve in 'Paradise Lost' and the poetic voice of Isabella Whitney are investigated through the application of Cixouss theories of figurative decapitation and disgorgement. The author examines the creation of a unique discourse through the blending of what is stereotypically referred to as female text with male discourse, which results in what Cixous would call bisexual discourse.

O autorze

Melanie Hanson is at present an Assistant Professor of English at Sam Houston State University. Her publications focus on women writers and womens issues, including her most recent research on contemporary decapitation advertising in Las Vegas, Nevada and the childrens novels of Native American author Louise Erdrich